ISBN:
9780415781015
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (225 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2012 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Iranian studies 10
Parallel Title:
Print version Gender in Contemporary Iran : Pushing the Boundaries
DDC:
305.48/89155
Keywords:
Women - Iran - Social conditions
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This book examines gender and the dynamics of social change in contemporary Iran, documenting the changes in women's lives and showing how women have now become agents of social change rather than victims. Bringing together the detailed primary research of a number of eminent scholars working in Iran, this collection provides unique perspectives on the past decade in Iranian society. Chapters document and examine how different Iranian groups and classes are negotiating, resisting, and pressing for political and social change, to explore the complexity of a society that often is portrayed in mo
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Gender in Contemporary Iran; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction: the case for a gendered analysis of contemporary Iran; 1. Authority, modernity and gender-relevant legislation in Iran; 2. Gendering Shi'ism in post-revolutionaryIran; 3. Women and social protest in the Islamic Republic of Iran; 4. Exploring women's experience of higher education and thechanging nature of gender relations in Iran; 5. Exclusionary cartographies: gender liberation and theIranian blogosphere; 6. Areas of Iranian women's voice and influence
Description / Table of Contents:
7. Post-revolutionaryIranian youth: the case of Qom and thenew culture of ambivalence8. Changing attitudes among women in rural Iran; 9. Women's employment trends: advance or retreat?; 10. Extra legal/informal settlements: does gender matter?; 11. Iran within a regional context: socio-demographictransformations and effects on women's status; Bibliography; Index;
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1.Authority, modernity and gender-relevant legislation in Iran / Louise Halper -- 2.Gendering Shi'ism in post-revolutionary Iran / Azadeh Kian -- 3.Women and social protest in the Islamic Republic of Iran / Fatemeh Etemad Moghadam -- 4.Exploring women's experience of higher education and the changing nature of gender relations in Iran / Goli M. Rezai-Rashti -- 5.Exclusionary cartographies: gender liberation and the Iranian blogosphere / Niki Akhavan -- 6.Areas of Iranian women's voice and influence / Jaleh Taheri -- 7.Post-revolutionary Iranian youth: the case of Qom and the new culture of ambivalence / Farhad Khosrokhavar -- 8.Changing attitudes among women in rural Iran / Eric Hooglund -- 9.Women's employment trends: advance or retreat? / Shala Kazemipour -- 10.Extra legal/informal settlements: does gender matter? / Zohreh Fanni -- 11.Iran within a regional context: socio-demographic transformations and effects on women's status / Elhum Haghighat-Sordellini.
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Description based upon print version of record
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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